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...ready for bigger things. Neil and his wife Sharon were welcomed as a winsome couple in Denver's highly stratified social set. Sharon volunteered to help at Children's Hospital, Denver's most chic charity. She sold cookies through Cookie Express, a mini-business she started with chum Nancy Davis Zarif, daughter of Denver oil tycoon Marvin Davis, who dominated society in the city. Neil played squash at the Denver Club. But genteel poverty amid rich friends pinched: with Neil's $30,000 Amoco salary and a relatively modest $210,000 home, the Bushes were not keeping pace with their...
...August the flamboyant Good was brought into the deal. Bush had met Good at one of the aggressive speculator's lavish parties, and they had become friends. Good opened a $750,000 line of credit for Bush, promised more and flashed visions of wealth before his new chum. He even lent Bush $100,000 to invest in a hot commodities tip. The tip fizzled, and Good forgave the loan, an arrangement Bush later acknowledged as "fishy...
...Thus the most renowned figure will turn out to be a friend of a friend of a friend. When a well-spoken young black man bursts into a Manhattan millionaire couple's home, bleeding from an apparent mugging and claiming to be both a Harvard chum of their children and the son of Sidney Poitier, the startled Wasp hosts believe him. They accept even his screwiest assertion, that he can get them bit parts in a film of Cats to be directed by his father, because they, like most victims of confidence tricks, are blinded by vanity...
...Thomas Francis McGuane III that struggle began at the age of ten when a disagreement with a boyhood chum over the description of a sunset ended in a fistfight. "It was my first literary skirmish," he says. Born and raised in Michigan, McGuane was introduced to the outdoors and a stern Irish work ethic by his father, an auto-parts manufacturer. McGuane early on developed an "adventurous image" of what a writer should be from Horatio Hornblower novels and books about World War II. "I saw myself on the deck of an Amazon steamer or something," he recalls. At Michigan...
...wait, there's still Secretary Samuel Pierce and the HUD scandal. Savings and loans continue to hemorrhage red ink. And after 10 years of investigation, the Wedtech scandal has finally put Edwin Meese-chum Robert Wallach behind bars...